VOL. XII

THE MODERN PART OF AN UNIVERSAL HISTORY: FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF TIME, COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL WRITRES, BY THE AUTHORS OF YHE ANTIENT PART…

Vol. XII

London, 1759

BOOK XV – HISTORY OF THE OTHMAN EMPIRE

The Universal History (complete title: A Universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled from original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, &c. With a general index to the whole)  was a 65-volume universal history of the world published in London between 1747 and 1768. Contributors included George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell and John Swinton.

It was one of the first works to attempt to unify the history of Western Europe with the stories of the world’s other known cultures.